Here is a picture from the Porsche.com website. Using build your own I made one using Colbalt Blue Metallic (a $3070 option). I think it looks like the color you are questioning.
See the thread "Cobalt Blue." Here's a link to a 911 that is likely Lapis blue: www.excellence-mag.com/art1/art1p3.html or use the Porsche website's "Build-Your-Own-Porsche as suggested above.
I think I'm going with Lapis blue with sand beige leather interior when I pick up my 997 Turbo S Cab!
That definitely is cobalt blue Like has been said before lapis blue is much darker. The cobalt blue of Porsche's car configurator doesn't even come close to the real color. The configurator makes the color dull and displays a violet tone that cobalt doesn't have.
The first ones posted are not lapis but are not cobalt either.
I think it's been modified by computer, so basically, there's no color like it. It's just like the slate/seal grey of the 997s pictured in the porsche brochure. It's not seal, it's not slate, it's what you get when you use a computer to make pics look better.
I think that all pictures posted so far show cobalt blue cars. Apart from pictures being modified and the monitor used for viewing these little DigiCams don't get the colors right. Especially under different lighting conditions the color they capture varies heavily. I have appended an auction picture of a cobalt blue GT2. The color of that picture comes close to the cobalt blue 996 C4S that I have seen in flesh. For official Porsche pictures of a cobalt blue 996 TT cabriolet go to AMI motorshow Leipzig 2005 ewi
Brian, you have a very nice looking car. I really like that first picture.... very nice neighbourhood too. The interior looks beige rather than grey though....
Brian, you have a very nice looking car. I really like that first picture.... very nice neighbourhood too. The interior looks beige rather than grey though....
Thanks Leong. It really is Stone Grey. I really like it because it is darker than any grey interior I have ever had in a car.